Rating: PG
Author's Note: Ever since I posted the "Four Years" Champagne Challenge prompt, I've had an image in my mind of Mick and Beth at the Pacific Design Center, revisiting the fountain.
And this morning, this little snippet popped into my head. Happy Moonlight anniversary, everyone. 
Four Years
It's been four years since we met... or met again, whatever. Four years of stopping and starting, reaching out and pushing away. Four years of meeting up under the weirdest circumstances - in the morgue, at a crime scene, at a trendy hot spot. We come from different directions and we end up in the same place.
I think the universe has been shouting in my ear for a long time. And it's time I did something about it.
So tonight, I've invited her to have dinner with me at Arbor Bistro. And after dinner, we're gonna go back to that fountain. It's got red lights now instead of blue, but it's still beautiful at night. And the water's still freezing cold at three in the morning. Beth doesn't seem to mind the cold much, though. She's gotten used to frosty wake-ups in the past few years.
Josef's arranged for the night guard to have something very important to investigate on the other side of the Pacific Design Center, right around the time Beth and I are due to arrive, so we won't have anybody bugging us when we take off our shoes and go wading. And when she's ankle deep in that cold water, that's when I'm gonna pull out the ring. I hope I don't drop it.
I hope she says yes. I'm pretty sure she will. Because she's always been the one who could see the path through all the obstacles that separate us. She's been the one lighting my way through the night for a long, long time.
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Yeah, because that would totally blow the "perpetually cool" thing, Mick! 
Of course he won't drop the ring. And of course she'll say yes! 
of uncertainty. 
Hopefully, he'll give her forever too. 
